Chevy & GMC Vans

Yep!! It would be extra cool to have one all decked out in CHP!! :-)



Or Even Dukes Of Hazzard!!

Money no object?

Money REALLY no object?

Back in 67, I had finished High School and for a summer job before college, I went to work on a merchant ship to try and make enough money to buy a Tiger but things didn't work out the way I had planned. To have owned one would have been a dream come true at that time in my life. Seems it was around 3 grand for a new Tiger,,isn't that right ? Also,,didn't Carroll Shelby have his hand in the first Tiger ?

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/car ... 67012.html

You know Mike,,I can see you in that ride,,maybe wearing that hat I sent ya. Can ya see it ??

CaptSquid wrote:Money REALLY no object?

one of these but in a 69

done up to look like this

Rebel wrote:Back in 67, I had finished High School and for a summer job before college, I went to work on a merchant ship to try and make enough money to buy a Tiger but things didn't work out the way I had planned. To have owned one would have been a dream come true at that time in my life. Seems it was around 3 grand for a new Tiger,,isn't that right ? Also,,didn't Carroll Shelby have his hand in the first Tiger ?

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/car ... 67012.html

That sounds about right. I seem to recall a new Tiger retailing for around $3400.
What is now known as Shelby America did build every Tiger.
Carroll Shelby imported Sunbeam Alpine's from the UK into the US as rolling chassis's after Rootes Group went bankrupt in, I think 1965. Rootes Group survived bankruptsee thanks to a take over by Chrysler and continued to supply rolling chassis's to Shelby untill mid 1967 at which point Rootes Group/Chrysler discontinued the model. Chrysler refused to supply Shelby with the chassis's sighting that they could not come to terms with Shelby regarding the Ford powerplant.
I remember I needed a top end gasket kit one day and since Rootes Group was well on there way out by now I figured I would go to my local Ford dealer and buy the parts. The parts guy searched and searched for the parts only to find out that Ford did not supply the Ford parts I needed for my Tiger's 289.
So I went to a Chrysler dealer and asked if they had a top end kit for a 289. The guy looked at me as though I had two heads and felt he needed to remind me that a 289 is a Ford power plant and that this is a Chrysler dealership. After much disscusion he did find me the gaskets and a whole bunch of other Ford parts on a microfiche. The guy couldn't believe it.
The only thing's I didn't like about the car were the stock Alpine brakes, the tiny gas tank, and changing the plugs on number 4 and 8 cylinders. Shelby had to cut a hole on each side of the transmission hump and install access panels to get at the plugs. What a pita that was.